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　As soon as a grayheaded cuckoo dies; for moonlight on 17th (Kyoshi Takahama)

　It was several years ago, but knew it when I looked at the drama of the work of Ryotaro Shiba called "the cloud on the slope" in BS of NHK when it was the phrase that the emptiness child whom I nursed when haiku poet Shiki Masaoka died in a grayheaded cuckoo hermitage of Negishi composed. I do not know, but this phrase appears in a heart for some reason whenever I hold a funeral at a church.

 

  The person moves forward against death at a born moment. If there is the death when it is young, there is the death to grow old, and to visit the back in "I did not want to die". The person calls it misfortune or misfortune, but the Christian sense of values tells you without calling it with the fate when it is "time".

 

  There is a season about all under the sky, and there is time for all work.
  There is time if born, and there is time if I die.
  There is time if I plant it, and there is time if I pull the thing which I planted.
  There is time if I kill you, and there is time if I heal it.
  There is time if I break it, and there is time if I build it.
  There is time if I cry, and there is time if I laugh. (cf. Ecclesiastes three chapters one section - four sections A)

 

  When I read this point, I know that luck ganaitokadehanaku, all are performed in the effect only as for God that there is luck well. I can live without accepting something beyond own power, but cannot but accept that there is time in all matters that I was given if I believe God beyond own power and am going to live.

 

  There is difference in the view on decease and view of Japan on Christian decease. In (spring and summer shrine) "regarding death as life" of Father Alfonso D Ken, there is the record of the lecture of the Master Tokuji Shimoyama that it is a clinical psychologist, and was a professor of Sophia University. View on horizontal decease that Japanese climate brings him (this world and the next is on the same plane. For example, I talk about way of thinking) such as watching it behind the scenes of the blade of grass and a view on decease of the Buddhism (I tell that the original Buddhism transmigrates if I die, but seven times of Buddhism thought that came to Japan is reborn and it is the Land of Happiness or tells the hell when I go) even if I die.

 

  The view on Christian decease raises its person who performed the counseling of the person who invites death called the ELISA be Kubler loss (psychiatrist, counselor) that it is different from the totally upper thing for the first time in the world for an example. "The days when people toward the death were left invite the aging period of the life, the completion period and must help the one which matures, and is completed. I say, it is death counseling.  

  I sentence you to death and talk about time had left that you should live in deep time as important time as the opportune time, the completion period. However, therefore it has been demanded that "I announce the death".

 

  When there are the uneasiness of telling death and mental nonage, Mr. Shimoyama is you in a Japanese healthcare worker. Because there is not thought of the Christian revival, in them, I can say if naturally I say. However, there is what's called hospice (hospital present at the last) without such a knowledge, and the hospitals present at last moments mainly on pain clinic (treatment to kill a pain) increase in present Japan.

 

  However, it becomes the thing unlike the original hospice care clearly. It may be the world "that they do not know what happens posthumously, but only the pains of the body of people who are close to the death take.".

 

  "I describe Christ added to a cross and originally convey." Christianity so that St. Paul says (I Corinth one chapter 23 sections). Pains of Christ and Christianity that began with death and revival tell us the post mortem revival. Therefore the Kubler loss carried out a role to tell that I lived in an instant as hard as possible for an instant until the last moment when the death was informed it.

 

  If a summary of the life includes discord with siblings, it is reconciled with each other, and it lets you normalize the relations with the close friend, and it remembers it or it is important thing much more to have you let few experience what you were concerned with in last moments and leave.

 

  My mother arranged the room for some time (but father may die) for several years to die. When I died, I left nothing other than several pieces of new underwear and several changes of clothes. An older brother said that a child was filial, but thinks that mother would tell me the last way of life when I leave for the sky when the neckline must not be pulled.

 

  By the way of the person who faced death like that of life, mere; "is cured sometime. Therefore if the death approaches, not the way that I do not announce to tell to do the best, I think as such and feel need preparing for. It is to revive with Christ. I cannot help thinking that the reason why I do not repent of the life that there is not (I tell Christianity) and can live for a person is that one having to prepare for heaven until just before that dying through the life revives with Christ through all death only once. It is the non-everyday event that I do not want to think about very much about the death, but thinks like being important that you must think to live in life as hard as possible.

 

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi